A Kentucky woman was sentenced to life in
prison without parole Thursday for slaying a pregnant acquaintance
and cutting her baby boy alive from her womb.

Kathy Coy of Morgantown agreed to the sentence
in a deal last month in which she avoided a possible death penalty
by pleading guilty but mentally ill to killing 21-year-old Jamie
Stice last year and taking the baby.

Coy showed no reaction in the courtroom.

"There is no justice in this case," Stice's
brother, Eric Stice, said after the sentencing.

The boy, named Isaiah, survived and lives with
his father.

Prosecutors said Coy had befriended Stice on
Facebook and used a stun gun to subdue the pregnant woman last
April after luring her out of the house by saying they were going
baby-supply shopping.

Police said after Coy stunned the expectant
mother, she slit her wrists, cut the baby from her body and
brought the baby, a uterus, ovaries and a placenta to a local
hospital. The umbilical cord was still attached, police said.

Coy initially told police she gave birth to the
boy, then said she bought him for $550.

Police searched Coy's home and computer,
finding links to two pregnant women on her Facebook page.
Investigators found one of the women unharmed, but couldn't find
Stice.

Coy eventually led detectives to a wooded area
off a dirt road, where Stice's remains were found.

Police found the stun gun and two knives
believed to have been used in the attack.

'The death penalty would
be too merciful for you': Murderer who ripped unborn baby from
victim's womb gets life in prison without parole

Kathy Coy, 34, pleaded
guilty in a deal that spared her the death penalty

Jamie Stice's, 21, body was
disembowelled, her throat and wrists were slashed

Stice's family say baby
Isaiah is now thriving after violent, premature birth

Coy, with the baby still
attached to Stice's placenta, tried to claim the baby as her own

DailyMail.co.uk

March 2, 2012

A Kentucky woman has been jailed for life
without parole for killing an expectant mother and ripping her
unborn baby from her womb.

Kathy Coy, 34, was handed the sentence after
admitting to the brutal murder of Jamie Stice, 21, on the grounds
of mental illness in a plea deal which allowed her to avoid the
death sentence.

Ms Stice's son, Isaiah Allen Stice Reynolds,
survived the horrific attack although he was born five weeks
premature and lives with his father.

Coy, dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and
shackled at the hands and feet, did not speak during the
sentencing held today.

She showed no reaction as deputies led her from
the courtroom after the hearing.

Warren Circuit Judge John Grise said the word
evil is used even for small disagreements or disputes, and is
overused by attorneys and judges. 'Here, however, was evil at
work,' Grise said.

Prosecutors said Coy had befriended Stice on
Facebook and used a stun gun to subdue the pregnant woman last
April after luring her out of the house by saying they were going
baby-supply shopping.

Police said after Coy stunned Stice, she slit
her wrists, cut the baby from her body and took the baby, a
uterus, ovaries and a placenta to a local hospital.

The umbilical cord was still attached, police
said.

Coy, who has children of her own living with
other relatives, initially told police she gave birth to the boy,
then said she bought him for $550.

In statements to the court and after the
sentencing, Stice's family and friends were torn between
condemning Coy and celebrating a murdered woman they called the
'Little Angel Mom'.

Her cousin, Carolyn Miracle, said Jamie Stice
had been 'ready to be a mommy' when she was slain.

Kathleen Smith, the paternal grandmother of
Isaiah, looked directly at Coy as she read a statement saying,

'If you knew Jamie, you couldn't help but love
her.' Smith then lashed out at Coy, who closed her eyes.

'The death penalty would be too merciful for
you,' Smith said.

Miracle said her family was devastated by Jamie
Stice's death, with her uncle unable speak about it and others
still haunted by the loss of the expectant mother.

Miracle said her aunt, Jeannie Stice, had 'her
heart stomped on' by Coy.

'Kathy Coy decided she would play God and took
our Jamie from us,' Miracle said.

'There's no amount of time you can give Kathy
Coy that would be enough. There is a higher court that will judge
Kathy.

The victim's mutilated body was found off a
dirt road in southern Kentucky on April 14, a day after she had
been seen leaving her home with Coy.

Police arrested Coy at a local hospital after
she had arrived with the infant but showed no signs of having
given birth.

Psychologist Eric Drogin testified briefly
before the plea was entered last month. Mr Drogin said he met with
Coy recently and that she suffers from a mental illness.

After killing Stice and stealing the baby boy,
Coy drove to the home of a friend and said she had given birth to
the baby.

The friend told troopers that Coy was in a car,
wearing no pants and sitting on the placenta while holding the
baby, who had grass on him.

The friend called for an ambulance after
helping to clean the baby and taking a picture of the newborn.

Police searched Coy's home and computer,
finding links to two pregnant women on her Facebook page.
Investigators found one of the women unharmed, but couldn't find
Stice.

Police would later find a stun gun and two
knives believed to be used in the attack.

'I then asked Ms Coy if that baby was Jamie
Stice's,' Kentucky State Police detective Chad Winn had said at an
earlier hearing. 'She answered "I don't know," I was alarmed by
this.'

Coy eventually led detectives to a wooded area
off a dirt road, where the victim's remains were located.

Jamie Stice's body was found face down on the
ground, disemboweled with her hands tied behind her back the next
day.

Mr Winn told reporters last month that Coy, who
has two children of her own, had faked pregnancies and was
obsessed with the thought of having a baby.

In further testimony heard last spring, the
detective said that Coy had asked her teenage son to help her
commit murder but when he refused she said she was just joking.

She had told people she was pregnant and had
been hatching a plan for months, it was alleged.

She even stole a sonogram photo to help back
her claim.

She even stole a sonogram photo to help back
her claim.

‘She was desperate to prove to everybody that
she was pregnant, and I guess nobody believed her,’ said Ms
Stice's friend, Ashley Reeder.

‘So I think she did this to show everybody that
she was going to have the baby when it really wasn't her baby,’
she told NBC.

Her neighbours in Bowling Green were all taken
in by Coy’s baby scam.

‘She has been telling everyone that she was
pregnant and we had no reason not to believe otherwise,’ said
Darla Mueller.

'The miracle in the whole thing is that the
baby made it,' Winn said of Jamie Stice's baby.

Jamie Stice's 29-year-old brother Eric Stice:
'It's heartbreaking, heartbreaking. We'll just make sure Isaiah
has the best life we can offer him. We owe that to my sister.'

Kathy Coy of Morgantown
entered the plea Friday in Warren Circuit Court as family and
friends of the victim, 21-year-old Jamie Stice, looked on, all
wearing pink ribbons.

An emotional Coy pleaded to
three counts -- murder, capital kidnapping and kidnapping. She is
set to be sentenced March 1.

As part of the plea deal,
Coy will receive life in prison without parole. She could have
been eligible for the death penalty.

Stice's remains were
found near dirt road in Warren County near Bowling Green less than
a day after she was seen leaving her house with Coy in April of
2011.

Police say Coy used a stun
gun to subdue Stice before killing her and cutting out her baby.

Coy was arrested after
showing up at a hospital with a newborn baby, but showing no signs
of having given birth.

The baby boy that was
removed from her body survived.

Guilty but mentally ill

Defendant in grisly case
avoids death penalty with plea, while victim’s family says justice
about as much as could be expected

By Deborah Highland -
Bgdailynews.com

February 17, 2012

A Morgantown woman pleaded guilty but mentally
ill today to kidnapping and killing a pregnant woman and taking
her unborn baby.

Kathy Coy, 34, pleaded guilty in Warren Circuit
Court to kidnapping and murdering 21-year-old Jamie Stice, cutting
Stice's unborn son from her womb and then kidnapping the infant,
who she tried to pass off as her own, in April. The baby survived
and is healthy.

By entering a plea, Coy escaped the possibility
of a death sentence and could now face life without parole, the
sentence that the commonwealth recommended. A sentencing hearing
is set for 8:30 a.m. March 1.

The guilty plea spared Stice's family a lengthy
trial and appellate process.

"I don't know that there will ever be justice,
but this is better than nothing," Jamie's mother, Jeannie Stice,
said after Coy entered her plea. Jeannie Stice originally wanted
to see her daughter's killer receive the death penalty but
realized that Kentucky rarely executes people who receive that
punishment, she said before today's hearing.

Reaching a decision against seeking the death
penalty was a tough call for Warren County Commonwealth's Attorney
Chris Cohron.

"I have struggled more than I have in any other
case from the standpoint everything in my heart told me the only
resolution for Ms. Coy was the death penalty," Cohron said after
the hearing. But because Kentucky rarely executes people on death
row, and many death convictions are overturned, a guilty plea with
a sentence of life without parole is a "logical resolution."

Jeannie Stice, along with many of Jamie's other
relatives and friends, filled the courtroom today wearing pink
ribbons in Jamie's honor. Pink was Jamie's favorite color.

Jamie's father, Terry Stice, said he was
grateful that Coy admitted her guilt, led police to his daughter's
body, which might not have otherwise been found, and that the
family will not have to go through a trial.

"I think this is appropriate," Kentucky State
Police Detective Chad Winn said after the hearing. Winn was the
lead detective on the case that he called a "group effort" on the
part of his fellow detectives at Post 3. "I think given the
circumstances of this case, it would have been very difficult for
the family to go through a trial. I don't know that there truly is
justice for a case like this. I do believe if this brings some
type of closure for the family, it's the right decision."

State police found Jamie Stice's body April 14
in a wooded area off U.S. 68-Ky. 80 near Oakland. Her throat had
been cut and her wrists bound and slit. Stice had been
disemboweled, and her baby boy had been cut from her body with a
drywall knife.

The infant still had the umbilical cord, a
uterus and two ovaries attached to him when Coy showed up at a
friend's Butler County house April 13 claiming to have just given
birth, according to police court testimony in May and court
records. Coy asked the friend to snap a picture and send it to her
husband, who was out of town.

Coy's story unraveled when she and the baby
were taken by ambulance from Butler County to The Medical Center
in Bowling Green, where doctors quickly determined that Coy could
not have given birth to the baby and hospital personnel called
police.

Coy, a twice-divorced mother of two teenagers,
befriended Jamie Stice and another pregnant woman on Facebook,
according to court testimony in May. Coy told detectives that she
had suffered a miscarriage before Stice's murder, a claim that
detectives were never able to fully substantiate, Winn said after
the hearing.

Between the first hearing in May and today,
police learned that Coy had faked many pregnancies in the past and
stalked other pregnant women going back for years, Winn said.

"So it was consistent behavior with her," he
said.

"I think she was definitely obsessed with being
pregnant and the thought of having a baby," Winn said.

Even though Kathy Coy and Shannon Coy were no
longer married at the time of the murder, Shannon Coy still listed
Kathy Coy as his wife on his Facebook page at that time. Thurman
Coy, who lives in Roundhill, called Kathy Coy his "ex"
daughter-in-law and declined to comment about the case in April.

Winn didn't know if Coy's motivation for faking
the birth was to keep her relationship going with Shannon Coy.

In the weeks leading up to the kidnappings and
murder, Coy disclosed to her then 13-year-old daughter that she
had miscarried and she asked the teen for her help in kidnapping a
baby, according to court testimony. Coy also asked her then
14-year-old son if he would help her commit a murder. Both teens
refused to help their mother with her requests.

Coy lured Stice into her car on the premise
that the two women were going to obtain baby items April 13. She
used a stun gun to subdue Stice and drove her to the wooded area
where police found her body, according to May court testimony.

Her unborn baby boy, Isaiah Allen Stice
Reynolds, survived and lives primarily with his father, spending
every other weekend with Stice's family.

"I feel like as much justice was served that
could be served," said James Reynolds, the baby's father, who sat
stoically in the courtroom, staring at Coy, during the hearing.

Family wants death penalty
for accused

Bgdailynews.com

January 20, 2012

The family of a Bowling Green woman who was
killed by someone who used a drywall knife to carve the woman's
unborn baby from her womb wants to see the accused receive the
death penalty.

Kathy Coy, 34, of Morgantown is charged with
murder and two counts of kidnapping in the death of Jamie Stice,
21, who was found April 14 with her throat cut and her wrists
bound and slit in a wooded area off U.S. 68-Ky. 80 near Oakland.
Her unborn baby boy, who was cut from his mother's womb, survived.
Coy is also charged with resisting arrest and tampering with
physical evidence. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

During a pretrial conference today, Warren
Circuit Court Judge John Grise set a Jan. 15, 2013, trial date for
the case. The trial is expected to last four weeks.

Warren County Commonwealth's Attorney Chris
Cohron anticipates reaching a decision on whether to seek the
death penalty before Coy's next pretrial conference, set for 8:30
a.m. Feb. 20.

"I want the death penalty," Stice's mother,
Jeannie Stice of Bowling Green, said after today's hearing.
"Jamie's whole family wants the death penalty. I want the death
penalty because I want her to see the judge tell her, ‘You are
going to sit on death row for the rest of your life in jail,' and
I want Isaiah, Jamie's baby, to know that her family fought all
the way for her."

The baby boy that Jamie never got to hold,
Isaiah Allen Stice Reynolds, is now a smiling and happy
9-month-old, Stice said.

"He's starting to crawl," she said. "He'll be
walking before you know it.

"I keep telling him over and over and over how
much she loved him and what she would be doing if she was here."

Cohron, who in November expected to reach a
decision on the death penalty before today's hearing, now plans to
make that decision within the next month, he said.

"What we anticipate is prior to the Feb. 20
date, we will file a pleading when the final decision is made to
seek aggravated sentencing," Cohron said.

In this case, aggravated sentencing could
include the death penalty, life without parole and life without
parole for 25 years.

"We always take the victims' wishes into
account in any capital case, but the final decision rests with my
office," Cohron said about the family's desire to seek the death
penalty in the case.

But other factors also play a role in such a
decision.

"In any case, you look at the nature of the
crime, the defendant's criminal record, you look at all the facts
surrounding the event, and it's one of those things that any time
we have sought aggravated sentencing in a case, it's always been a
clear decision," Cohron said.

Coy, a twice-divorced mother of two teenagers,
befriended Jamie Stice and another pregnant woman on Facebook,
according to court testimony in May. Coy told detectives that she
had suffered a miscarriage in the weeks leading up to Jamie
Stice's death.

Coy is accused of using a stun gun on Jamie
Stice and driving her to a wooded area, where she used a drywall
knife to carve Jamie Stice's baby from the mother's body, removing
Jamie Stice's ovaries, most of her uterus and the placenta. Jamie
Stice died in the woods.

Coy also is accused of taking the baby and
trying to pass him off as her own.

Coy is in Warren County Regional Jail without
bond.

Jamie Stice's son lives with his father, who
spends every other weekend with Jamie Stice's family.

Fetal abductions 'eerily
similar'

Bgdailynews.com

May 1, 2011

Facebook brought together two young women - one
pregnant with her first child, a son, the other already a mother
and pretending to be pregnant with her third child.

If Jamie Stice of Bowling Green hadn’t been
expecting, she might have never crossed paths with Kathy Coy, a
twice-divorced mother of two teens living in Morgantown and trying
to make another go of a relationship with her latest ex-husband,
Shannon Coy.

But the social networking site made it easy for
Coy to befriend Stice, who proudly displayed her baby bump as her
Facebook profile picture. Coy was also Facebook friends with
another pregnant woman in the same stage of pregnancy as Stice.

Coy and Stice had known each other for only a
couple of weeks before the relationship came to a tragic end.
Kathy Coy, 33, is charged with kidnapping a minor and with murder
in Stice’s death. Stice was 21.

Kentucky State Police found Stice’s body April
14 in a wooded area off U.S. 68-Ky. 80 near Oakland. Stice’s
throat had been cut and her wrists bound and slit. Stice had been
disemboweled, and her baby boy had been cut from her body with a
drywall knife. The infant still had the umbilical cord, a uterus
and two ovaries attached to him when Coy showed up at a friend’s
Butler County house claiming to have just given birth, according
to police court testimony and court records.

The way Stice died and the way her baby boy was
brought into the world are shocking, but her murder and the
subsequent fetal kidnapping is not the first crime of its kind. It
was the 14th fetal abduction in the United States since July 1987.

Of the 14 fetal abductions, 10
babies survived the ordeal, including Stice’s son, Isaiah Allen
Stice Reynolds, who was listed late last week in good condition at
The Medical Center at Bowling Green.

“They are all eerily similar,” said Cathy
Nahirny, senior analyst, infant abductions, for the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children, in reference to the case
against Coy and the 13 other fetal abductions.

Infant kidnappers are usually women of
child-bearing age in a fragile relationship with a male partner.
Typically the woman abductor will tell her male partner that she
is pregnant with his child, Nahirny said.

“What happens is this bonds him to her, and so
he stays,” she said. “Now she has to perpetuate a ruse of being
pregnant.”

Infant abductors might gain weight, wear
maternity clothes and tell everyone around them they are pregnant.
They are usually manipulative and carefully plan an abduction.

“They’ll use different means to obtain their
target, which is the victim mom,” Nahirny said. “How they go about
it, it’s not as if there’s a handbook out there. They all put
their personal twist on things. They are all good at the con. That
is how they get through their lives, through lying, manipulation
and deceit.

“It’s very disturbing.”

Infant abductors also like to
show off “their” new baby, Nahirny said. The women have been
telling people for months that they are pregnant when in some
cases they never were.

Coy wasn’t wearing pants when she arrived in
Shelly Lindsey’s driveway April 13, according to police court
testimony. She was sitting on the placenta and other female organs
inside her car while holding the baby in her arms.

Coy was honking the horn. Lindsey came out and
called for an ambulance when Coy announced she had just given
birth. Coy got out of the car holding the baby boy. His mother’s
reproductive organs were still attached.

Coy asked her friend to snap a picture of the
baby and send it to her “husband” Shannon Coy, who was working out
of town. He received the text message with the picture, according
to court testimony and records.

Fetal abductors follow nearly the same pattern
as the typical infant abductor, Nahirny said, with one major
difference: These crimes are taken to the next level in terms of
brutality.

When fetal abductors are caught, their legal
defense teams usually try to prove that their clients are mentally
unstable.

“But when you look at it from a clinical eye,
there is usually so much planning that goes into these incidents,”
Nahirny said.

Coy told detectives that she had suffered a
miscarriage a few months ago but withheld that information from
her family while pretending to still be pregnant, according to
court testimony.

In recent weeks, Coy disclosed the miscarriage
to her daughter and asked for the 13-year-old girl’s help in
kidnapping a baby. Coy also asked her 14-year-old son if he would
help her commit a murder, according to court testimony. Both
children refused.

Coy stands accused of luring
Stice into her car on the premise that the two women were going to
obtain baby items. She is also accused of using a stun gun on
Stice. Coy bought the stun gun at a local flea market on April 3.
Her daughter was with her when she made the purchase.

Nahirny surmises that the women who commit
fetal abductions see the expectant mom not as a person, but as a
vessel that contains something inside that they want for
themselves.

“It’s that calculated, and it’s that cold,”
said Ann W. Burgess, a doctor of nursing science at Boston College
who teaches courses in victimology, forensic science and forensic
mental health. “Any person who commits a crime has to justify it
in their mind, and that would be one way to do it.”

Burgess and Nahirny plan to study the issue of
fetal abductions.

Because hospitals have intensified infant
safety measures and taken steps to prevent infant abductions, some
women are going to the extreme by taking babies directly from the
womb, Nahirny said.

In some of the early cases of fetal abductions,
the kidnapper would pick a vulnerable woman in need of help,
meeting the expectant mother in a public place such as outside of
a doctor’s office or in a shopping center. Some kidnappers study
how to extract a baby.

“You’ve seen over time some changes in the
style of attack and some access of the mother victim,” Burgess
said.

“This last case, I found it quite horrendous,”
Burgess said about Stice’s murder and the way her baby boy was
removed from his mother’s body.

“Every (kidnapping) is horrible,” Nahirny said.
“But these are particularly gruesome. There is a general
perception in our society that women are not capable of committing
violent crime when in fact, women do commit violent crimes.”

Coy remains lodged in the Warren County
Regional Jail, where she is being held without bond. If convicted,
she could face the death penalty.

Bowling Green, KY - Kathy
Michelle Coy, a 33-year-old Kentucky woman has been charged with
murder after she allegedly used a stun gun to subdue a young
pregnant woman before cutting the woman's baby out of her womb.

According to Kentucky State Police, Coy had
recently suffered a miscarriage when she hatched a plan to carve a
child out of another pregnant woman's womb and call it her own.

Last Wednesday, Coy executed her plan -
murdering 21-year-old Jamie
Stice
in a horrific manner that forced her family to vacate the
courtroom in tears during Coy's preliminary hearing.

According to police, the tragedy began when Coy
led the expectant mother into a wooded area near a Kentucky
freeway. That's when Coy pulled out a stun gun and used it to
immobilize her victim.

Coy then slit the woman's throat and wrists
before using the knife to cut the woman's baby out of her womb.

Shortly after committing the crime, Coy drove
to a friend's house stating "I just had the baby, it's here,"
according to
Det.
Chad Winn who testified at Coy's hearing. "She advised that Ms.
Coy had no pants on and she was sitting on the placenta and female
organs and holding the baby in her hands."

Coy was then transported by ambulance to The
Medical Center in Bowling Green where she presented the baby along
with
Stice's uterus, ovaries, placenta and umbilical cord -
which was still attached to the infant. Recognizing that something
was seriously wrong, hospital staff contacted police.

When police explained to Coy that she had
arrived at the hospital with most of another woman's reproductive
organs - Coy changed her story and claimed that she paid a
stranger $550 for the baby boy. Police didn't buy her story and
held her on suspicion of murder.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for
Coy's home and quickly found a connection between Coy and
Stice
through
Facebook. Coy reportedly found
Stice
on the social networking site and introduced herself by stating
"How are you? I hear you are going to be a mom."

Coy then reportedly convinced
Stice
that she worked for a company that could help the young mother
with baby clothing and financial assistance. She continued to
build
Stice's trust by promising to help her find suitable living
arrangements and other provisions the baby would need.

With mounting evidence against her, Coy
eventually admitted to murdering
Stice,
providing investigators with the location of
Stice's
remains.

Coy's defense attorney didn't ask any questions
during the hearing and declined to have Coy testify citing her
"mental health problems." It's a likely bet that the defense's
strategy will be one of having Coy declared mentally incompetent
to stand trial.

The case will now go to the grand jury. The
child's father, Matt Jones, has stated that the infant is in good
condition. A memorial shower for Jamie was held on the date
originally reserved for her baby shower.

Friend: Killing Pregnant
Kentucky Woman, Stealing Baby Was Plotted

Aolnews.com

April 15, 2011

Kathy Michelle Coy, the Kentucky woman accused
of murdering 21-year-old Jamie Stice and kidnapping her unborn
son, may have spent more than six months plotting the alleged
crime, according to a friend of the victim.

"Jamie fell in her trap," Stice's close friend
Ashley Nicole told AOL News. "She [allegedly] kidnapped her,
killed her and then cut her baby out of her. I'm still in shock.
It is unimaginable."

According to Nicole, Coy, 33, friended Stice on
Facebook and told her that she was from an agency that helps
pregnant women and could help get her clothes for her baby. She
also told Stice that she, too, was pregnant, Nicole said.

"She made Jamie believe she was pregnant when
she wasn't," Nicole said. "She had stolen someone else's
ultrasound pictures back in October, and if you count that up,
that's seven months. I really believe she had this planned out
from the beginning and needed the right person to do this stuff
to."

Authorities jailed Coy on murder
and kidnapping charges Wednesday after personnel from a Bowling
Green hospital contacted Kentucky State Police about a "suspicious
birth" involving Coy. After questioning Coy, authorities went to a
wooded area in Oakland, Ky., where they found Stice's body,
Kentucky State Trooper Jonathan Biven said at a press conference
today.

According to Nicole, the baby, who was not due
until May 24, is doing well. "The baby is OK. He is premature
[and] he is still in the hospital," she said.

"We've still got some other tests that we are
doing, toxicology and things like that, and we're still waiting on
the results of those," Kirby told AOL News.

The scenario Nicole alleges is eerily similar
to one that occurred in Missouri in 2007, in which then
19-year-old Lauren M. Gash befriended 18-year-old Amanda Howard on
the social networking website MySpace. Gash, who had been lying
about her own pregnancy to family members for months, told Howard
she had some baby clothes for her and set up a meeting at a gas
station.

On July 30, 2007, Gash picked Howard up at the
gas station, but instead of taking her to her home to pick up baby
clothes, she drove her to a hotel room in Blue Springs, Mo., where
she bound and gagged her. Gash then got on top of Howard and
attempted to snap her neck.

The hotel staff alerted law enforcement, and
when police came to the hotel room and rescued Howard, they found
several items of interest, including duct tape, a drop cloth, a
syringe and forged copies of a birth certificate.

In July 2008, Gash pleaded guilty to
kidnapping, assaulting and restraining Howard. She was sentenced
to 23 years in prison.

As for Coy, she is expected to be formally
arraigned Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether she would
be represented by an attorney.

Meanwhile, Stice's friends plan
on holding a memorial baby shower for her son Saturday. Nicole
said the goal is to gather items for the child and also to raise
money for a funeral fund.

"She was really excited to become a mom. She
was really looking forward to it and really wanted to meet him,"
Nicole said. "But now he is not able to have a mother, and all we
can do is show him pictures.

New Details In Murder Of
Southern Kentucky Mother-To-Be

Lex18.com

April 14, 2011

Her family says 21 year old Jamie Stice was
expecting a baby boy in just 40 days. Yesterday, staff at Bowling
Green Medical Center reported a suspicious birth. That led to the
sad discovery of Stice's body in a field outside Bowling Green,
and to a murder and kidnapping charge for another southern
Kentucky woman.

"She was a wonderful girl with a very sweet
spirit about her," said Stice's aunt, Nancy Logsdon. She had
planned a baby shower for this coming Saturday.

"The baby was named Isaiah and she was actually
due, I think she put on Facebook she was due in about 40 days,"
she said.

Then came a tip of a suspicious birth from
staff at the Bowling Green Medical Center. It led Kentucky State
Police to a wooded area just outside Bowling green. Next came the
arrest of 33 year old Kathy Michelle Coy, now charged with murder
and kidnapping of a minor. Stice's friend Ashley Reeder says the
two women were friends. She says Kathy had stolen someone else's
sonogram picture, claiming she was pregnant.

"She was desperate to prove to everybody that
she was pregnant, and I guess nobody believed her because she was
telling everybody, oh I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant. So
I think she did this to show everybody that she was gonna have the
baby when it really wasn't her baby," Reeder said.

The atrocity has prompted an outpouring of
grief from Stice's friends and family on Facebook. Reeder started
a page in her memory.

"I shouldn't be making memorial pages for
people who are so young," Reeder said. "She was very outgoing,
very loving, always smiling."

It's a virtual place that Reeder hopes will
serve as a reminder for a little boy who never got to know his
mom.

"I thought Jamie really needs to be recognized
because she left a son behind and he needs to know how his mom
was," she said.

Police would not comment on the condition of
the infant in this case. Kathy Michelle Coy is currently being
held without bond in the Warren County Detention Center. If
convicted of the crimes she's accused of, she could face the death
penalty.

A fund has been set up to help pay for Stice's
funeral. If you'd like to help, you can deposit a check made out
to the Jamie Stice Fund at the Service One Credit Union in Bowling
Green.